Traumatized people suffer damage to the basic structures of the self. They lose trust in themselves, in other people, in God...The identity they have formed prior to the trauma is irrevocably destroyed. (Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 1992) 2
What type of crime can have that type of effect on a person, a crime that is often the most under reported. A crime that does not affect just one person, but a whole family. That crime is rape. Rape is generally defined as forced or non-consensual sexual intercourse. Rape may be accomplished by fear, threats of harm, and or actual physical force. There is more then one type of rape from marital, to jail rape, stranger, to drug affiliated that is when penetration is accomplished when the victim is unable to give consent, or is prevented from resisting, due to being intoxicated, drugged, unconscious, or asleep and date or acquaintance rape, which will e discussed in this paper, all of those types of rape have the same result of being......
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